Women and the Media

Maggie Andrews is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Worcester.Sallie McNamara is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Theory at Southampton Solent University.

• Introduction Maggie Andrews and Sallie McNamara Section 1: Women and Media in the Era of Enfranchisement, 1900-1939 1. "Elated, Exhilarated and Emancipated": Representations of Women’s Motorcycle Riding in the Motorcycling Media, 1903–1914 Rosey Whorlow and Sallie McNamara 2. "From Women’s Hour to Other Women’s Lives: The BBC Talks for Women and the Women Who Made Them, 1923-1939 Kate Murphy 3. Lady Eleanor Smith: The Society Column, 1927–1930 Sallie McNamara Section 2: Women in War and Peace: The 1940s and 1950s 4. A View from the Frontline: The War Photography of Lee Miller Janet Harrison 5. Prostitution, Adultery and Illegitimacy: Tortuous Couplings and Unstable Sexual Repression in Wartime Film Maggie Andrews 6. Striving for Editorial Autonomy and Internal Recognition: The Setting Up of BBC’s Woman’s Hour, 1946-1955 Kristin Skoog 7. Women’s Viewpoint: Representing and Constructing Femininity in Early 1950s Television for Women Mary Irwin 8. "But What About Mum?": Journalist, Architect, Wife, Mother: Diana Rowntree Glenda Strong Section 3: The Long 1960s: Cultural Revolution? 9. Women and Woman: Representations of Youthful Femininity in the "World’s Greatest Weekly for Women", 1954-1969 Rachel Ritchie 10. The Gendering of Racism in Social Problem Films Maggie Andrews 11. "Should Women Be Bus Drivers?" Defending a Permanent Position for Women on the Buses in ATV’s Regional Television News, 1963-1979 Gillian Murray 12. Pin-Up Culture and Page 3 in the Popular Press Adrian Bingham Section 4: ’80s and ’90s: Thatcherism and Its Legacy 13. The Iron Lady and the Working Girl: The Image of the Prostitute in 1980s British Cinema Paul Elliott 14. Feminism and Femininity: The Potential Politics of Consuming Popular Culture: A Case Study of Marie Claire’s Reportage of Global Humanitarian Politics Maggie Andrews 15. What’s Luff Got to Do with It? : Teenage Magazines, Sexuality and Regulation in the 1990s Fan Carter 16. Fantasies, Factions and Unlikely Feminist Heroines in Contemporary Heritage Films Maggie Andrews